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AS WELL AS PORTUGUESE AND CANTONESE)
(III) THE CHINESE SIDE HAD INVITED THE GOVERNOR OF MACAO TO COME TO CHINA REGULARLY ONCE A YEAR IN FUTURE.
IN DISCUSSION, THE FRG REPRESENTATIVE POINTED OUT THAT, IN AN INTERVIEW WITH A MACAO NEWS CORRESPONDENT DURING THE VISIT, ZHOU NAN HAD MADE A CRYPTIC REMARK TO THE EFFECT THAT THE PORTUGUESE SIDE
SHOULD BE FREE TO CARRY OUT NEW MEASURES IN MACAO SO LONG AS THESE WERE NOT CONTRARY TO THE FUTURE MACAO BASIC LAW. TEIXEIRA SAID WHAT
THIS REALLY MEANT WAS THAT THE CHINESE WANTED ANY SIGNIFICANT
CHANGES IN THE RUNNING OF MACAO TO REMAIN WITHIN THE SPIRIT OF THE SINO-PORTUGUESE JOINT DECLARATION AND WANTED TO BE FULLY CONSULTED ON THEM (A STATE OQ AFFAIRS NOT UNFAMILIAR TO OURSELVES EXCLAM). 3. WHEN MISS BAILES AND THE PORTUGUESE AMBASSADOR SAW JI PENGFEI OFF AT THE AIRPORT ON 1 JUNE, THE FOLLOWING POINTS AROSE:
THE
(A) JI SAID HE HOPED THAT, DURING HIS VISIT TO MACAO AND AFTER, PORTUGUESE SIDE WOULD COME FORWARD WITH ''MANY GOOD IDEAS AND SUGGESTIONS'' FOR THE WORK OF THE SINO-PORTUGUESE JLG AND THE MACAO BASIC LAW (THIS ECHOES ALL WE HAVE HEARD ABOUT CHINESE DISCONTENT WITH PORTUGUESE PASSIVITY IN THE NEGOTIATION PROCESS),
(B) JI WAS NOT PREPARED TO SAY WHEN THE MACAO BLDC WOULD BE SET UP, WHO ITS MEMBERS WOULD BE OR WHETHER HE HIMSELF WOULD BE THE CHAIRMAN, BUT
(C) A VICE CHAIRMAN OF THE NPC STANDING COMMITTEE, WANG HANBIN, WHO WAS THERE CONFIRMED THAT THE PROCEDURE WOULD BE FOR THE NPC STANDING COMMITTEE TO PASS A RESOLUTION SETTING UP THE BLDC AND FOR ITS CHAIRMAN TO BE APPOINTED AT THE SAME TIME: HE DID NOT, HOWEVER, THINK THERE WOULD BE TIME TO DO THIS AT THE NEXT PLENARY MEETING OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE WHICH WAS SCHEDULED FOR THE LATTER HALF OF JUNE.
ON THE SAME DAY (AS YOU WILL PROBABLY HAVE SEEN) THE XINHUA BULLETIN QUOTED ZHOU NAN AS SAYING THAT THE MACAO BASIC LAW COULD BE FORMULATED BY CONSULTING, BUT NOT COMPLETELY COPYING, THE HONG KONG BASIC LAW AND THAT THE FUTURE MACAO BASIC LAW DRAFTING COMMITTEE
8WOULD) ABSORB TH BASIC CONTENTS OF THE SINO-PORTUGUESE JOINT DECLARATION ON MACAO INTO THE MACAO BASIC LAW''
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